None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.